Journal of International Academic Research for Multidisciplinary Editorial Board CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS IMPACT ON HUMAN HEALTH IN INDIA

ABSTRACT Climate change is a significant and emerging threat to public health security from extreme weather related disasters to wide spread to such vector borne diseases malarias and dengue .Impact of climate change on human health will not be even distributed around world. Climate change is bound to affect the basic requirements for maintaining health. India is a large developing country with highest mountains, density populated coastal areas, 700 million of her1 billion populations in rural areas directly depend up on climate sensitive sectors especially agriculture, forest and fisheries and natural resources for the livelihood. Heat wave, flood and draught cause health problems like malaria, malnutrition and diarrhea in India. The climate change may alter the distribution of important vector species and may increases the spread of diseases to new areas .malaria is one of the important climate change diseases that have been extensively studies in this study